What May 2026 Clarified About My Work
A reflection on a month of documenting work across live production, communications, instrumentation, wireless research, and physical systems design.
This section exists to show the thinking, not just the results.
It holds essays, reusable frameworks, field notes, methods, technical depth, and build logs—sitting next to each other without pretending they all do the same job. Browse chronologically, or jump sideways via the linked skills, system domains, ventures, and categories on any post that resonates.
The strongest public writing trail is also on Medium, with a lighter presence on Substack.
Kitchen LED Lights
The third room in the Magnolia LED rollout, introducing physical constraints around heat, grease, and the need for actually useful task lighting.
LED Backpack
A portable, wearable LED display built into a backpack — same individually addressable technology as the house projects, but with battery power, outdoor visibility, and durability constraints.
LED Baseboard Lights — Bedroom
Soft baseboard lighting using the WLED ecosystem that shifts color temperature through the day — and revealed that bedroom smart lighting has near-zero tolerance for latency.
LED Lights — Office (WLED & WS2812b)
Individually addressable LED strips controlled by ESP8266/ESP32 running WLED, integrated with Apple HomeKit and Home Assistant to respond to time of day, calendar events, and sensor data.
Light Suit with Camera
A full-body wearable LED suit — programmable, camera-equipped, and built entirely by hand — that taught more about power budgets, wearable ergonomics, and heat dissipation than any datasheet.
The founder’s mindset (and why it matters when you work with me)
What I mean by “founder mindset,” why it’s valuable, and the receipts across my ventures that show I’ve run the full business cycle — repeatedly.
IDC Projects: the student-run mobile app and game studio
How IDC Projects shipped 25+ mobile apps, built Memory Matches into a $1M+ franchise, and became the product-and-data engine that eventually grew into Lumate.
Interdisciplinary Design Collaborative (IDC): the student-run incubator that seeded everything
How a student-run LLC at Missouri S&T became my first real operating system for shipping interdisciplinary work — years before Lumate.
Breaking Down the AI Agent Term
A practical framework for decomposing the term "AI agent" into twelve distinct dimensions so vague conversations about agentic systems can become precise ones.